Transition question

[daddog]

I am using VSX4 Pro.

If I go to Settings>Preferences>Edit Tab>Transition Effect and choose 'crossfade' for the default transition I seem to be be able to set the duration to 1 second, but not less. I would like to set it to .10 (1 tenth) of a second, but it will not let me choose that. Now in the Video track I can edit each transition to less than a second, but I have about 150+ photos want to insert and don't want to have to edit manually each transition between each picture. I would rather just insert them all in one drag and have the transition be set to 1 tenth of a second in the project preferences.

Anyway to do that? Thanks in advance.

[teknisyan]

I was able to set the Duration at .10 (1 tenth) of a second, instead of typing the time, I used the down arrow that you'll see at the right side of the DURATION box.

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[Bushdoctor]

There is no way of doing that. I'm dealing with the same problem.
Abiel is refering to the videotrack, not the preferences.

[daddog]

Humm.
Well something is different on my end. I am unable to do that. I can't type it in and using the arrows as you did Abiel also did not work. Just stays at 1 second.

This is in X4 just so we are on the same page. Not version X5.

Ideas?

[daddog]

Oh. I see, you did not do it in the Settings>Preferences area. Yes I can do that also, but I have a couple hundred photos I want to do that with. Would be rather a slow process to have to set it to each one. My questions is can this be done in the Settings>Preferences area? If not can you in X5?

[canuck]

daddog,

why do you want to set a transition to .1 second? You will never be able to see the effect

[daddog]

Well, I might use .2 or .3, but it looks better than nothing between some stills for what I am trying to do. You are right, that transition is very fast, but I am looking for something significantly less than one second. I see now it is not possible unless you do it with each one manually. Maybe that is something they will fix in the next version. I gather you still can't in X5.

[BrianCee]

The last figure in the settings box is FRAMES not seconds - the full array is hours.minutes.seconds.frames

you cannot set less than 1 frame - cycle through that last number and you will note it goes from 1 - 30 on an NTSC setting and 1 - 25 on a PAL system

if you set yours to 3 then it will be 0.1 second.


but I am afraid I do not know of any way to change all at once - it is still the same in X5

[Bushdoctor]

The last figure in the settings box is FRAMES not seconds - the full array is hours.minutes.seconds.frames

Wow, now it suddenly makes sense why that last part only goes to 30! I never realized they were Frames. Very good to know, thank you.

I also like a lower setting on the crossfade effect. I usually set it to 20 frames. (Or 'point 2' as I previously called it).
I just had to adjust another 60 transitions manually, so I know what you're talking about Daddog. It's a pain in the butt.
You can save a little bit of time by using a previous layout. You can drop new photo's onto the old ones to replace them,
but it tends to get a bit messy because you will lose the 'end transition' with each replacement. So you will have to go back
and re-insert the other half anyway.. Ah well, it's one of those things we can only hope Corel will improve upon.

I suspect the default setting in the preferences is there because a few transitions need at least 1 second to play their effect.

Good luck on your projects!
Bushdoctor.